يأيُّها المعشوقُ لا فارقَتْ

يأيُّها المعشوقُ لا فارقَتْ

رُباك أنوارٌ وإشراقُ

رُباك أنوارٌ وإشراقُ

O Beloved, may there never depart

O beloved, your charm never fades

from your hills blossoms and radiance.

Your light and radiance abound

فكلّ معشوقٍ له عاشقٌ

فكلّ معشوقٍ له عاشقٌ

والناسُ طُرّاً لك عُشّاقُ

والناسُ طُرّاً لك عُشّاقُ

For every beloved has a lover,

Every beloved has a lover

and all people are lovers of you.

And people are birds madly in love with you

كأنّما الحسنُ بلأْلائه

كأنّما الحسنُ بلأْلائه

عَلَى ثَرَى أَرْضك مُهْراق

عَلَى ثَرَى أَرْضك مُهْراق

As though beauty, with all its brilliance,

As if beauty with its glimmers

were poured upon the soil of your land.

Scattered on the soil of your land

وكلّ عَيْنٍ بكَ مَفْتونَةٌ

وكلّ عَيْنٍ بكَ مَفْتونَةٌ

وكُلُّ قلب لك مُشْتاقُ

وكُلُّ قلب لك مُشْتاقُ

And every eye is enchanted by you,

And every eye is infatuated with you

and every heart longs for you.

And every heart longs for you

إذا رنا نرجسُك المشتهي

إذا رنا نرجسُك المشتهي

بأعين فيهن إطراق

بأعين فيهن إطراق

When your yearning narcissus gazes

When your desired narcissus sways

with eyes cast down,

With eyes that glance coyly

كأنّما فاجَأَها كاشح

كأنّما فاجَأَها كاشح

بكل ما تكره سبّاق

بكل ما تكره سبّاق

as though a spiteful foe had startled them,

As if a reveler surprised them

ever quick to bring all they detest,

With all they hate hastily

فابيضّ منها لمفاجاته

فابيضّ منها لمفاجاته

مَحاجرٌ واصفرّ أحداق

مَحاجرٌ واصفرّ أحداق

so, at his sudden coming, there turned white

So from the shock their cheeks turned pale

their eye sockets, and yellow their pupils.

And their eyelids yellow

وابتسم النِّسرين من حولها

وابتسم النِّسرين من حولها

فهو صقيل الثغر برّاق

فهو صقيل الثغر برّاق

And the eglantine smiles around them,

And the smiles around it beamed

its mouth polished and gleaming.

For it has a polished, shining lip

واستيأس الآس من المُلْتَقى

واستيأس الآس من المُلْتَقى

فَهْوَ من الرِعدة خفّاق

فَهْوَ من الرِعدة خفّاق

And the myrtle has despaired of meeting,

And desperation spared the encounter

so it quivers with trembling,

For it trembles from rapture

مختلف الأغصان في مَيْسه

مختلف الأغصان في مَيْسه

إذا انثنى ساقٌ علا ساق

إذا انثنى ساقٌ علا ساق

its branches interlacing as it sways:

Its branches differ in their bending

when one stem bends, it rises over another.

When one bough rises over another

يحفّه نَيْلَوْفَرٌ سابح

يحفّه نَيْلَوْفَرٌ سابح

في الماء لا يُرْديه إغراق

في الماء لا يُرْديه إغراق

A floating water lily surrounds it,

Surrounded by a swimming water lily

in the water, where drowning cannot destroy it,

In water, not sunk by the plunge

كأنما زُرَّت على روسه

كأنما زُرَّت على روسه

من دَخَن الكِبريت أطواق

من دَخَن الكِبريت أطواق

as though fastened around its heads were

As if garlands of sulfur smoke

collars of sulfur smoke.

Were worn around their heads

تخدمه في السَّقْي ناعورةٌ

تخدمه في السَّقْي ناعورةٌ

مَرْهاء لا يَرْقا لها ماق

مَرْهاء لا يَرْقا لها ماق

A waterwheel serves it in watering,

A fountain serves it in watering

bleary-eyed, its eye-corner never drying.

A skillful one whose conduit does not leak

وناعم الخضرة قد اُلْبِسَتْ

وناعم الخضرة قد اُلْبِسَتْ

منه حِداق العينِ أوراق

منه حِداق العينِ أوراق

And a plant of tender green: draped are

And the tender green is dressed

its leaves over the pupils of the eye,

In the eyelids' leaves

كأنما جَمّشه عاشق

كأنما جَمّشه عاشق

أو ناله للدهر إرهاق

أو ناله للدهر إرهاق

as though a lover had playfully pinched it,

As if a lover picked it

or the strain of time had afflicted it.

Or the ages overburdened it

وأحْجل الوردَ بكاءُ النَّدى

وأحْجل الوردَ بكاءُ النَّدى

فاحمرّ والحمرةُ تُسْتاقُ

فاحمرّ والحمرةُ تُسْتاقُ

And the dew's weeping abashed the rose,

And the dew's tears reddened the roses

so it reddened, its blush drawn forth.

So it blushed and the blush is sipped

كُلُّكَ يا معشوقُ مما غدا

كُلُّكَ يا معشوقُ مما غدا

إليه كُلُّ اللّحظ تَوّاقُ

إليه كُلُّ اللّحظ تَوّاقُ

All of you, O Beloved, is what

All of you, O beloved, became

every gaze has come to yearn for.

What every glance craves

كأنما زَوَّق ما فيك من

كأنما زَوَّق ما فيك من

بدائع الأنوار زَوّاق

بدائع الأنوار زَوّاق

As though what lies within you were painted—

As if what is in you of

wondrous blossoms—by a master painter.

Wondrous lights was adorned by a decorator

ساويتَ بين الزَّهْرِ في نَبْتِه

ساويتَ بين الزَّهْرِ في نَبْتِه

كأنّما لحظك ورّاق

كأنّما لحظك ورّاق

You have made the flowers equal in their growth,

You equalized among the flowers in their growth

as though your gaze were a maker of leaves.

As if your gaze was the adorner